“We need $720,000 per year to run Lichess and we get it through donations, averaging about five Euros per person,” says Wait.

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But now Google’s DeepMind team has built AlphaProof, an AI system that matched silver medalists’ performance at the 2024 ...

The International Chess Federation filed a complaint against former World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik for leading a ...

Gary Marcus argues today’s AI sounds smart but lacks real understanding, and says true progress needs human-like reasoning.

Every four years at the Cybathlon, teams of researchers and technology “pilots” compete to see whose brain-computer interface ...

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Demis Hassabis has spent much of the past decade trying to unlock the secrets of the universe through artificial intelligence ...

Rebecca Heineman's obituary, video game pioneer, first eSports champion in the US, and a historic figure linked to some of ...

One of the worst things people in education can do around AI is nothing,” said Naomi Hughes, a media specialist in Rochester, Minnesota. “Because kids are already using it.” ...

When you mention “true artificial superintelligence,” do you mean AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)? This is orders of magnitude harder to do than any AI that exists today. Rudimentary, ...